jung society of sydney newsletter july to november 2008

NewsC.G.Jung Society of Sydney

Addressing Climate Change, page 14

Ginette Paris, page 10

BodySoul Rhythms, page 24

Psyche and the City, page 26

For those that Steal a Book from this Library:

Let it change into a serpent in their hand and rend them.Let them be struck by palsy and all their members blasted.Let them languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease for their agony until they sink to dissolution.Let book-worms gnaw their entrailsin token of the worm that dieth not.And when at last they go to their final punishment:Let the flames of hell consume them forever and aye.

Binding ConnectionsWELCOME TO OUR latest edition of Jung

Downunder. This second half of 2008 is

a busy time for us in the Jung Society.

Alongside our regular monthly meetings we

have a reading group, a workshop and the

Annual Christmas Party to look forward to. I

do hope that you will be attending many of

our events and participating in the ongoing

dialogues of our community.

Anne di Lauro opens her book review of

Ginette Paris’s Wisdom of the Psyche with a

quote by the author: "The future of depth

psychology is concerned [with raising] the fever

of imagination, to amplify the loving connection

that binds us to the world." We begin and

finish our programme with events whose

focus resonates with this concern. In July

Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini and myself

will address some responses and reactions

to global climate change in a panel entitled

"Depth Psychology meets Climate Change:

Weaving Threads between Self and World".

My article "An Elemental Imbalance" in this

issue acts as an introduction to this evening.

In November we hear from Craig San Roque

on "The Inner City of Sydney", who shows

Erica Cordell’s photos and reads excerpts

from the chapter he has been invited to

write for Thomas Singer’s upcoming book

Psyche and City:The Soul’s Guide to the Modern

Metropolis.

Our upcoming programme also has a

focus on the work of Marion Woodman,

Kathleen McPhillips is offering a reading

group following an enthusiastic response

to the talk she gave us in February which

explored Woodman’s work. In October Joan

Harcourt, a BodySoul Rhythms practitioner

who has trained with Woodman, speaks on

the archetype of the Crone, and presents an

accompanying BodySoul Rhythms workshop,

"Becoming Crones".

Our third theme concerns love and

relationships. In August Judith Pickering

discusses a relational approach to individ-

uation, the theme of her recently released

book, Being in Love: Therapeutic Pathways

Through Obstacles to Love. The following month

Bo Robertson presents a Cinema and Psyche

event entitled "Myths to Live By: Pygmalion as

a Modern Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy".

This will explore mentor/teacher expectations,

illustrated by movies including Pygmalion and

Educating Rita.

In keeping with tradition we conclude

our year with the Annual Christmas Party.

We are going Spanish this year at Capitan

Torres Restaurant. I do hope you’ll join us for

passionate discussions and tempting tapas,

after Craig San Roque’s talk on November 8.

My thanks to Tim Hartridge for once again

designing and producing a beautiful edition

from the Presidentof Jung Downunder. His talent, skill

and inspiration are most generously

given for the benefit of the Jung

Society. Thanks also are due to Lucy

Davey and Jon Marshall for their fine

editing and proofreading.

Sally Gillespie, President

FROM THE COMMITTEE

Each year brings changes to our

Committee. This year we farewelled

Peter Mann, Technical Officer and

Louise Fanning, Special Projects

Officer, both of whom resigned in

order to allow more time for their

own creative projects. We are very

grateful to them for their generous

contributions to the Jung Society.

At the same time we welcomed

Tori Collins and Yolanda Waldman

into our ranks. Tori has taken on the

maintenance of our website, while

Yolanda is assisting Lucy Davey in

the library. Their fresh energy and

enthusiasm boost us all.

Tim Hartridge has lifted our profile

enormously with his beautiful graphic

design work on the Jung Downunder

newsletter and our website, making it

very easy for us to promote ourselves

through our var ious networks.

Yolanda and Lesley Hamlyn have

particularly focused on promoting

us to the clinical community, while

June Reynolds does an excellent job

of liaising with the general public.

An enormous amount of work

has been done by Monica Roman

and Marcel Abarca to order our

financial affairs and records up to

a professional standard. Our books

have never looked so good. Bo

Robertson is busy promoting our

advertising while our bookstall is

well-stocked with many of the latest

imported Jungian-related titles as well

as second-hand titles thanks to the

informed buying of Jon Marshall.

O u r H o n o r a r i u m , L e n o r e

Kulakauskas, works tirelessly to see

that all the administrative wheels

keep turning while coming up

with many innovations to promote

and enhance the work of the Jung

Society. It’s a privilege and a delight

to be the President of such a talented,

committed and generous Executive

Committee. On behalf of the Jung

Society I thank them all for their

great work.

Sally Gillespie

LIBRARY

There is a collection of books, journals

and tapes available for members

of the CG Jung Society to borrow.

Borrowers are permitted two books

and two tapes, for a two month

loan period. Renewals are possible

if borrowers contact the Librarian,

Lucy Davey (Ph. 9572 7210), or the

Honorarium, Lenore Kulakauskas.

It is important that borrowed

items are returned in reasonable

time – the following warning note

was suggested by a member of the

Society.

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“We have come to know the gods as disease... Now we are seeing the repressed gods return as natural disasters on a global scale.”

Sabini ‘Temple to Gravity’, Spring 75

HOW WE LIVE is disordering our

environment, and nature is reflecting

back to us our own imbalances. The

question we now face is how to take

the necessar y actions to respond

to a situation that is so hard to truly

acknowledge and accept. We both want

to know and don’t want to know, as it

becomes apparent how much change is

required of us. We are confronted by the

knowledge that we need to challenge

the vested powers of corporations and

governments, as well as confronting

a demanding ego in ourselves. We

want to cling to present perceived

entitlements such as cheap electricity

and unfettered travel. In his book Heat,

George Monbiot writes that it takes a

dif ferent kind of consciousness from

our contemporary sensibility, if we are

to fight for the austerity and greater

regulations that are clearly required

of us to avoid disaster. One of the great

challenges to modern consciousness is

to embrace the value of limits.

Jung often lamented the separation of

modern consciousness from nature, and

the symbolic meanings once found there.

“Thunder is no longer the voice of a god

nor is lightning his avenging missile. No

river contains a spirit, no tree means a

man’s life...” Jung, Collected Works 18::§585

WE SEE IT IN THE NEWS everyday: the elements of nature out of

balance. Drought, hurricanes, bushfires and floods, alarming images

which illustrate the escalating scientific evidence that human activities

are producing climate change.

W E A V I N G V O I C E S

Yet in facing our current environmental

situation, there is a growing response

of fear and guilt that resonates with an

instinctual feeling that there are indeed

spirits in nature who are disturbed and

angry. Our hubris is all too apparent,

while what to do about it is hotly

debated. A regression to pre-industrial

ways of behaving and thinking is not

possible. Maturity and consciousness

are called for, and a rite of passage

needed, one that will take us from a

juvenile narcissism and grandiosity to a

position of responsibility and restraint,

as we acknowledge both the natural

ecosystems and the human communities

upon which we depend.

“The still infantile man of today has

had means of destruction put into his

hands which require an immeasurably

enhanced sense of responsibility, or an

almost pathological anxiety, if the fatally

easy abuse of their power is to be avoided.”

(Jung, CW 18:§1367)

The personal and collective initiation

process that lies ahead will be gruelling

as we face worldwide food shortages,

energy restrictions, rising outbreaks of

disease, species extinctions and other

ef fects of rapidly changing climatic

patterns. Many lives are at stake, and

while af fluence cushions western

industrialized nations, we also bear

greater responsibility for creating

global environmental imbalance.

What we see happening ‘over there’ in

the desertification of Africa or the air

pollution of China, is a consequence

by Sally Gillespie

AnElemental Imbalance

“ Maturity and consciousness are called for, and a rite of passage needed, one that will take us from a juvenile narcissism...”

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AnElementalImbalanceof our lifestyles here. How we respond

to this knowledge both defines us and

determines our future. Consumer

choices become more complicated

with increased awareness. I watch

my own conflicting desires as I learn

more about the carbon emissions of

my travel, my heating, my groceries.

I see myself slowly moving from being

environmentally aware as a willed act

of sacrifice, to making a necessary and

heartfelt choice.

Facing the disorder of the elements of

nature requires an internal accounting

of my own imbalances. The disasters of

fire, air, earth and water in today’s world

mirror the disorders of these elemental

forces within myself and others. The

outer reflects the inner, or as Jung

suggests more graphically, the demons

of nature are playing unconscious havoc

in response to our denial of them in

outer reality:

“The demonism of nature, which man

had apparently triumphed over, he has

unwittingly swallowed into himself

and so become the devil’s marionette.”

Jung, CW 18:§1365

The fire spirit kindles passion, warms

the heart and lightens the way. But

a fire demon who is over-fed and out

of balance with the other elements

devours with its burning energy and its

increasing demand for more resources.

The candle burns at both ends, creating

a way of life that pivots on growth and

overheated economies, while self and

meaning are consumed in the drives of

ambition.

Externally the overuse of fire in

high energy-consuming lifestyles is

creating a hothouse of higher global

temperatures, with increasing bushfires

and droughts. Internally a conflagration

of imperatives fuels activity that creates

inner emotional deserts. We need to

become conscious of both the fiery gods

that power us on in search of greater

economic growth and achievement,

and the fire muses that inspire us to

create sustaining meaning and purpose.

Less devotion to competitive Mars,

and more attendance to the hearth of

Hestia, support the cultivation of a fire

that centres earthy life, where stories

and visions can be shared to guide a

sustainable life on earth.

Air fans fire. Contemporar y life

is a whirlwind of air spirits with its

frenetic digital communications and

the exponential growth of airline

travel . Along with the warming

temperatures encircling the globe,

there is the overheated air of constant

chatter swirling around us and within

us. Hurricanes act as a vent to release

the build up of hot air. They are on

the rise in the world, while internally

we experience storms of anxiety and

restlessness as mental activity becomes

overcharged.

Alongside the chatter, the media

delivers the confronting ecological

truths of our interconnectedness. We are

learning that warmer air temperatures

af fect ever y aspect of life on ear th,

from desertification and the spread

of diseases to dying ocean reefs and

species extinctions. On a collective level

we are experiencing what the astronauts

first saw when they rocketed into the

sky and turned back to view Earth – the

beauty, fragility and unity of the planet

where we live. Consciously engaging

the airy realm can give perspective. We

need far-seeing intellect and thought

to help us face the times we are in.

The challenge is to claim the time and

space to think, and to risk seeing the

immensity of the picture of our current

situation. It can be overwhelming and,

as with the astronauts, it can radically

re-order our values and ideals. All

of us at this time are confronted with

developing a global consciousness and

finding a way to individually live within

this awareness.

Relationship to earth is pivotal to the

way the energies of fire and air play

out. Being caught in the airy realms,

disconnected from earthy life, whips up

a dust storm; becoming embroiled in

a firestorm of ambitions burns out the

land. The fate of the earth needs to be

seen, her voice heard. Earth struggles

with an avalanche of material desires

driven by the demands of the fire and air

dragons: exotic holidays, the speediest of

technologies, the most powerful of cars.

Being ordinary, having humility, learning

patience are earthy experiences that are

shunned in today’s world. The earth gods

protest through an avalanche of fatigue

and body complaints, and the heavy

demons of depression can shut us out of

the circus of the world. Neither the Earth

nor our being can sustain the onslaught

of activities that contemporar y life

demands in order to be 24/7 productive

and performing. Sustainability requires

“ Air fans fire. Contemporary life is a whirlwind of air spirits with its frenetic digital communications....”

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cycles, seasons – inbuilt constraints with

their balancing periods of inactivity and

non-achievement in order to thrive. Our

earthy work is to redeem these restful

spirits from their place of banishment

and shame.

Rich fertile earth is fed by compost,

manure and other rotting detritus.

Humus is the root word for humility

and humbleness. What makes good

soil also nourishes the soul. Reducing

ego’s demands for more possessions,

achievements and experiences,

enriches the ground of our being.

The earth gods require us to shed old

images, structures, beliefs, positions

and identities to be more vital. The

autumnal season of loss and the winter

period of dormancy ensure future crops.

Seeking security through constant

growth and productivity stimulated

by artificial means ensures collapse

ahead in humans and ecosystems

alike. True earthy security is based

on an understanding and acceptance

of the necessity for restraints and

constraints, for the way we must match

needs to resources. Earth knows there

are limits and we feel secure when we

can acknowledge them and responsibly

live within them.

“The facts of nature cannot in the

long run be violated. Penetrating and

seeping through everything like water,

they will undermine any system that

fails to account for them, and sooner or

later they will bring about its downfall.”

Jung CW 16:§227

We in the developed world are living a

lifestyle fuelled by the hubris of Icarus

– and our wings are beginning to melt

as we approach the heat of the Sun.

The flight of Icarus ends in the sea. On

planet Earth inundation looms as ice

caps thaw, ocean levels rise and storms

increase. Our contemporary images of

the ocean dramatically alert us to the

consequences of our heroic ambitions.

In the realms of the unconscious, in our

own depths, there is a terror in each

of us as we witness the destruction of

precious habitat. We feel helpless before

the tsunami of catastrophic news: floods,

rising sea temperatures, desertification,

increasing salinity. Scenes of drought and

flood affect us deeply on an instinctual

level. Their disturbing images find their

way into our dream life, with their many

resonances of aridity and thirst, their

capacity to drown and overwhelm.

Our waters are deeply stirred by

the most potent of emotions. How we

relate to what lies in the unconscious is

crucial for us personally and collectively.

We can be flooded by denial and turn to

all kinds of addictive behaviours, or we

can acknowledge our deepest terrors

and thirsts, and transform destructive

behaviours into life-sustaining ones. The

watery realm connects us to the life of

the unconscious, the place of dreams,

reverie, imagination and contemplation.

We can go to the waters for healing and

rebirth but to do so requires a surrender

of ego.

“The tempo of the development of

consciousness through science and

technology was too rapid, and left the

unconscious, which could no longer keep

up with it, far behind, thus forcing it

into a defensive position which expresses

itself in a universal will to destruction.”

Jung, CW 9i:§617

It is very easy to feel swamped by

the daily flood of information about

climate change and become paralysed

in response. Collectively we need to

meet at the river and draw on the power

of water to feel how small movements

change currents. The tidal wave of

action and awareness that swept the

world in 2007 as individuals flocked

to An Inconvenient Truth, fed into a

change of government in Australia

that has strengthened the Kyoto

Treaty. Here in Sydney, as individuals

turn off taps, water consumption has

been reduced to 1970's levels. We are

learning that individual actions, carried

out collectively, turn tides.

There are many polarities to hold in

facing climate change: individual need

and collective good, present desires

and future livelihood, personal actions

and global outcomes, destr uctive

impulses and creative urges. There

is ample opportunity in the current

situation to follow Jung’s urgings to

hold the tension of the opposites in

order to widen consciousness, and the

possibilities that go with this. To change

the world out there we need to change

consciousness, to find a sustaining and

sustainable way of being. Restoring the

natural elemental energies of fire, earth,

air and water into consciousness is one

way to relate to and reconcile ourselves

with the environmental reality of the

world.

References: C.G. Jung, Collected Works (Routledge, Kegan & Paul, London) George Monbiot, Heat (Allen Lane, London, 2006) Meredith Sabini ‘Temple to Gravity’, Spring75 [“Nature and Psyche”] (2006):139-153

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WISDOM OF THE PSYCHETHE WISDOM OF THE PSYCHE is

both a personal story and a manifesto,

written after the author’s descent into

a deep hole – an empty swimming pool

into which she fell on her head – and her

return to the upper world with the aid

of neuroscience and “the Great Mother’s

milk of compassion”. It is informed by

her encounter with death which taught

her, she says, more about the psyche

than had many years of analysis.

Her voice, though, has not changed

from the one we hear in her books

Pagan Grace and Pagan Meditations.

She is the same original, provocative,

bold, poetic, insightful and incisive

writer whom we know from her writings

on myths in everyday life. But this book

is more personal and courageous as it

takes a trenchant look at attitudes and

issues in the practice of psychotherapy,

enlivened by case material and accounts

from the author’s own life.

Firmly rooted in depth and archetypal

psychology, which she teaches at

Pacifica Graduate Institute at Santa

Barbara, California, Paris is particularly

influenced by James Hillman and his

work on the renaissance of psychology

through the imaginal. Like Hillman, her

approach is lively and polemical as she

pulls apart modern psychotherapeutic

dogma, putting into question all of the

myths about therapy that therapists of

any persuasion might hold dear. Her

ideas are underpinned by feminism

and Existentialism, particularly Sartre’s

dictum “We are condemned to freedom”.

She writes: “[T]o develop psychological

wisdom we must learn, early on, that even

the most loving relationship cannot spare

us the solitude of human destiny.”

She begins by engaging with current

models of psychotherapy—the medical

model (the promise of healing), the

economic model (multiplying one’s

psychological investments), the judicial

model (negotiating one’s psychic

territory, e.g. jockeying for the role of

victim), and the religious model (the

hope of redemption). None of these

models, she concludes, addresses

the passionate, irrational, Dionysian

aspect of psychological life. She sees

the practice of depth psychology as a

celebration of psychological life. It is

depth psychology that teaches us to

dance with the psyche.

B O O K R E V I E W

Of the rejected models, the one that

comes closest to the bone for many of

us, I imagine, is the myth of therapy as

redemption, analysis as the redemptive

quest masquerading as individuation,

“the belief that analysing the unconscious

will lead to a clean, pure, healthy psyche

and that one will evolve into a luminous,

loving, dignified, pacified soul.” While

the spiritual need is real, attributing

a quasi-divinity to the Self brings the

danger of inflation. For her, Jung’s

notion of the Self as an ideal centre, a

dream of totality, was literally turned on

its head in the aftermath of her accident,

when she learned to live out of liminal

spaces rather than aspiring to live from

a notional centre.

As to the future of depth psychology,

she urges us to “drop the medical

pretence”. “Analysis is not so much a

cure as an education, like learning a

new language, a philosophical adventure

in self-discovery, an art of living more

lucidly and intensely.”

The stress by Freud and Jung on the

medical scientific basis of their work

was necessary in the beginning, but it

no longer serves. Depth psychology as

a theory, she asserts, “is a deep thinking

about the life of the psyche and, as such,

belongs to the arts and the humanities.”

As a practice it belongs to mythology

– a narrative evoking the complexities

of human life. Like literature, depth

psychology transmutes the psyche’s

story, changing the myth and elevating

the psyche from shame.

A work containing such a profusion of

insights and bold assertions, impossible

to even hint at in this short space, will

sometimes surprise, will sometimes

bring nods of agreement, and will

at times jar, requiring readers to re-

examine and revise or reaffirm their

own values.

As we learn, Ginette Paris emerged

from her descent with a new myth of

her own, the springtime thawing of her

heart that had been frozen in childhood

for lack of warm mothering.

In this book, she has combined the

compassion of the Mother and the

rigour of the Father with her new-

found sense of the absurdity of life, and

produced a Dionysian dance of fresh

and challenging ideas.

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Ginette Paris author of Wisdom of the Psyche:

Depth Psychology after Neuroscience. London and New York, Routledge.

Pagan Grace by Ginette Paris.

"The future of depth psychology is concerned [with raising] the fever of imagination, to amplify the loving connection that binds us to the world." page 240, Wisdom of the Psyche.

by Ginette Paris

Reviewed by Anne Di Lauro

C.G.Jung Society of SydneyThe C.G. Jung Society of Sydney was formed in 1975 to promote

discussion of the ideas of the Swiss analyst and psychiatrist Carl

Gustav Jung. Each month the Society arranges Guest Speakers

to present a diverse range of Jungian topics in the form of talks,

workshops and special events, which can be found in the following

pages. The Society is open to all members of the general public

and offers a rich and varied monthly programme of speakers both

Australian and international.

Certificates of Attendance for professional development hours

available at all events.

2008 Programme July through NovemberSATURDAY, JULY 12:

Climate Change Meets Depth Psychology: Weaving Threads between Self and World Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini and Sally Gillespie Page 14–15

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9

The Cure is Effected Through Love: A Relational Approach to Individuation Judith Pickering Page 18–19

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

Myths to Live By:Pygmalion as a Modern Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Bo Robertson Page 20–21

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11

The Crone: The Archetype of the Wise Older Woman Joan Harcourt Page 22–23

WORKSHOP

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12

Becoming Crones: A BodySoul Rhythm workshop Joan Harcourt Page 24–25

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8

The Inner City of Sydney Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern Metropolis Craig San Roque and Erica Cordell Page 26–27

NEW! TUESDAY EVENING READING GROUP STARTS TUESDAY, August 5 — October 28

The Work of Marion Woodman Kathleen McPhillips Explore over 6 sessions some of the central themes in the extensive work of Canadian Jungian analyst Marion Woodman. See details and reading references. Page 16–17 For bookings phone Lenore Kulakauskas on 9365 7750

SATURDAY, November 8

Annual Christmas Party: Coming all together Hosted by your local C.G. Jung Society of Sydney. Page 28

www.jungdownunder.com

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Presenters: Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini and Sally Gillespie

meets depth psychology Climate Change

Weaving Threads between Self and World

PETER DICKER is a former president of the Illawarra Jung Society. He works

as a psychologist in a public health clinic, south of Wollongong. Over the past

two decades Peter has been exploring his interest in Jungian and Archetypal

Psychology through various creative projects – lectures, essays, poetry and

musical compositions – and he continues to maintain an ongoing passion for ideas,

particularly in relation to clinical and cultural matters.

SALLY GILLESPIE is a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice and the

President of the C.G. Jung Society of Sydney. She is the author of Living the Dream,

The Book of Dreaming and co-author of The Knot of Time. Sally has experience in

bush regeneration and is a passionate gardener who loves nothing better than being

deep in manure in her community garden allotment.

HEATHER FORMAINI is a Jungian analyst in private practice. Her theoretical

concerns focus on gender, particularly masculinity, and she is the author of the

best selling book Men: The Darker Continent. Heather was a founder member of the

British organisation Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, and

actively campaigns on the politics of fair trade and climate change. She also works

with refugees and asylum seekers. In her previous life she was a broadcaster with

the BBC and ABC, specialising in the borderline between politics and religion.

Members $10, Non-Members $25, Non-Members Concession $20

EVENTS PROGRAMME

Sally Gillespie

SATURDAY, 12 JULY

6.30pm for 7.00pm

TALK

Blavatsky Lodge,

484 Kent Street,

Sydney

He famously suggested that there

was only “a thin thread” of human

consciousness holding the line between

order and chaos in the world.

So it is appropriate that we now use

the depth psychology of Jung to turn our

gaze upon the pressing global concern

of climate change. By doing so we

acknowledge that this is a subject that

excites many fantasies and perspectives:

political, social and psychological.

What kind of psycho-analysis can be

undertaken in a world that appears to be

heading towards biological extinction?

Does the growing threat of climate

change require a transformation in how

we understand and relate to psyche, to

dreams, to fantasies and emotions?

How do we understand the interplay

between psyche and environmental

emergency? What role does psyche

play in supporting and/or hindering

the necessary changes to economic,

political and social structures which are

required by the growing environmental

crisis?

These are some of the concerns

that will be taken up by a panel of

presenters who in turn hope to excite

a conversation with the audience that

will reflect the many responses that this

complex subject can ignite.

Peter Dicker

JUNG WAS ARGUABLY one of the first therapists to draw a link between psychology and the global concerns of humanity.

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TUESDAYS, AUGUST TO OCTOBER

7.00pm

READING GROUP

Darghan Street

Psychotherapy Practice,

6 Darghan Street Glebe

EVENTS PROGRAMME

Kathleen McPhillips

THIS GROUP WILL explore over 6

sessions some of the central themes in

the extensive work of Canadian Jungian

analyst Marion Woodman. Themes

will include: addiction and its causes;

healing the split feminine; leaving the

father’s house; conscious femininity;

working with dreams and fairytales; the

BodySoul Rhythm program. Readings

will be provided, with the aim to cover a

couple of readings each week.

Kathleen McPhillips is a senior

lecturer in Humanities at the University

of Western Sydney. She has been

reading the work of Marion Woodman

for 25 years, and recently attended a

BodySoul Rhythm workshop in Italy.

Kathleen’s field of research includes

gender, culture and religion. She has

published extensively in these areas.

Marion Woodman

EVENT DETAILS: 6 SESSIONS

DATES: Tuesday, 5th August; Tuesday, 19 August;

Tuesday, 9 September; Tuesday, 16 September;

Tuesday, 7 October; Tuesday, 28 October.

Time: 7.00–9.00pm

PLACE: Darghan Street Psychotherapy Practice, 6 Darghan Street Glebe.

BOOKINGS: Lenore Kulakauskas Tel: 9365 7750 • Email: [email protected]

Cost: Members: $150 • Member’s Concession: $130 • Non- members: $180

Convenor: Kathleen McPhillips

RECOMMENDED READING:

Addiction to Perfection: The

Still Unravished Bride

Inner City, Books Toronto 1982

The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of

Psychological Transformation

Inner City Books, Toronto 1985

The Ravaged Bridegroom

Inner City Books Toronto 1990

Leaving My Father’s House

Shambala Press 1992

Conscious Femininity

Inner City Books Toronto 1993

Bone – Dying into Life

Viking Press 2000

Reading Group

Books by Marion Woodman 1716

JUDITH PICKERING, PhD, is a psychoanalytic couple therapist, Jungian

analyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in East Sydney.

She is a member of The Australian and New Zealand Association of Jungian

Analysts and the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and a

senior supervisor on the training faculty of the Australia and New Zealand

Association of Psychotherapy. She holds qualifications in Humanities, Asian

Studies, Musicology, Music Education, Psychotherapy, Analytical Psychology

and Psychology, lecturing in the area of couple therapy and psychoanalysis.


EVENTS PROGRAMME

Judith Pickering

SATURDAY, 9 AUGUST

6.30pm for 7.00pm

TALK

Blavatsky Lodge,

484 Kent Street,

Sydney

“We only become ourselves with people and for people ... the self is like a

crowd, therefore being oneself, one is also many ... one can only individuate

with or against something or somebody.” – Carl Jung

The path of tr ue love does not

always run smoothly, but goes of f-

course with alarming regularity. Its

achievement is never once and for all,

but requires continual renewal, and

is dependent upon how well any two

lovers can understand, work through

and disentangle the webs of mutual

projections and false imputations

imposed upon each other. We bring, like

a malignant dowry, defensive patterns of

relating based on traumatic childhood

experience which we superimpose

upon a new relationship, giving rise

to entangled unconscious interlocking

scenes. Here both individual analysis

and couple therapy can inspire and

enhance the capacity to love well and to

become fully ourselves in a process of

transformation in love.

The Cure is Effected Through Love

AT THE CORE of analysis is a

profoundly transformative relationship:

“For two personalities to meet is like two

dif ferent chemical substances: if there

is any combination at all, both are

transformed” (Jung, CW 15:§163).

Yet the shadow of individuation

can be a rigid if not frigid form of

individualism. This talk re-envisions

individuation as about healing the false

disseverations and divisions we have

created between ourselves and others:

by opening ourselves out to the world

of others through genuine altruistic

appreciation of others as they are, rather

than expecting them to conform to our

fantasies and expectations; by delighting

in, not fearing our differences; and by

welcoming the unpredictability of a

real relationship rather than continually

trying to control the agenda. Authentic

love is much richer, more exciting and

fulfilling than any fantasy relationship we

concoct in our limited imaginations.

Becoming who we are is a becoming

in and through love. We uncover

our truest nature, and become most

authent ica l ly real , through the

difficult and fearful, yet transformative

intersubjective crucibles of our intimate

relationships. Relationships may be

notoriously confusing, full of the pain of

disappointed expectations, disillusioned

fantasies, misunderstandings, and

mutual projections and identifications,

but they also have the potential for us

to liberate each other from the defensive

doldrums of depressed torpidity, into

new realms of discover y of who we

might be and become under all the

deceits and disguises.

Speaker: Judith Pickering

A Relational Approach to Individuation

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SATURDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER

6.30pm for 7.00pm

TALK

Blavatsky Lodge,

484 Kent Street,

Sydney

EVENTS PROGRAMME

Bo Robertson

BO ROBERTSON, M.Lib.Sc., Dip.Cl.Hyp., JP, is a passionate Emotional

Intelligence and Personal Development Trainer and coach, specialising in the

study of mind-body connection, Psychocybernetics, the knowledge of human

archetypes, motives underlying decisions, and why people do what they do.

Bo studied Psychocybernetics in Europe with Professor Marian Mazur, whose

book The ABC of Character: the Elementary Guide to Human Potential Bo

has translated into English and published. She is currently writing a book on

Emotional Intelligence and its dynamic archetypes.


desires" from those feelings with roots

in our heart of hearts. This exploration

will be illustrated by excerpts from films

and plays such as Pygmalion, My Fair

Lady, A Winter’s Tale, Educating Rita,

The King And I, A Star Is Born, Born

Yesterday to give an idea of the richness

of the modern versions of the myth and

their illustration of our psychology and

actions.

IN ANCIENT GREECE archetypal

psychological processes were captured

and depicted in the form of myths. These

stories taught the principles of living,

by showing how specific, co-dependent

processes of thought, emotion and

reflection become drivers of both

constructive and destructive human

actions. One such tale concerns the

sculptor Pygmalion who, despising all

real women, fell in love with Aphrodite,

made a statue of her and laid it in his

bed. He deeply hoped and prayed that

it would come to life and become his

wife and, eventually, Aphrodite granted

his wish.

The archetypal patterns displayed

in these myths are still of interest

to moder n psychology. Thus the

“Pygmalion Effect” is clearly illustrated

by research which shows that a teacher’s

anticipation of a student’s performance

is almost always proved correct (for

good or ill), regardless of the subjects’

initial ability.

This talk will explore the twin aspects

of the “Pygmalion Effect” and show how

biased (positive or negative) expectations

can change reality as if by “magic”. We

shall discuss the specific emotional

states which must be in place to effect

change and which separate superficial

Is magic a matter of fiction or religious beliefs only?

Can miracles be rationally explained?

Can a marble statue be brought to life?

If so, how could such a feat be accomplished?

Speaker: Bo Robertson

Pygmalion as a Modern Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Myths toLive by

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EVENTS PROGRAMME

JOAN HARCOURT has participated

in BodySoul Rhythm Intensives and

seminars for 8 years with Marion

Woodman, Mar y Hami l ton and

Ann Skinner. She has completed

the European BodySoul Rhythms

Leadership Training Program with the

Marion Woodman Foundation.

In February 2007 Joan was one of a

small team of leaders assisting Marion

and Ross Woodman in a BodySoul

Program in Hawaii.

She has co-led dream groups and

cross-cultural groups. Currently she is

leading Crone groups. She has trained

in analytical group work, gestalt therapy

and has a private practice as a body

psychotherapist in Cambridge.

Marion Woodman

Speaker: Joan Harcourt

WOMEN FACING the challenges of

change, physical limitation, loss and

invisibility that can occur in their later

years, find the journey to becoming

a Crone, a wise elder, is rich and

meaningful.

We will discuss the Crone attributes,

which can be found in both men and

women, and explore the gifts and tasks

of conscious aging. Drawing upon the

inspiring teachings of noted Jungian

Analyst, Marion Woodman, my own

experiences as a par ticipant in her

workshops, and myths and stories

of older women, we will look at the

thresholds and tasks of this journey

towards wisdom, wholeness and truth,

to wearing the “Crown of Age”.

The CroneThe Archetype of the Wise Older Woman

SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER

6.30pm for 7.00pm

TALK

Blavatsky Lodge,

484 Kent Street,

Sydney

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Presenter: Joan Harcourt

Joan Harcourt

EVENTS PROGRAMME

SUNDAY, 12 OCTOBER

TIME: 10am – 4.30pm

WORKSHOP

VENUE: The Centre,

14 Frances St.,

Randwick

CURRENTLY JOAN HARCOURT Is involved in leading groups exploring the Crone

archetype. After participating in the BodySoul Rhythm Intensives and seminars

with Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner, Joan was one of a small

team of leaders in 2007 at a BodySoul Program in Hawaii led by Marion and Ross

Woodman.

The workshop is educational, not therapeutic. Please wear comfortable clothing.

BOOKING DETAILS:

DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12

TIME: 10AM – 4.30PM

VENUE: THE CENTRE, 14 FRANCES ST., RANDWICK

WORKSHOP FEES: $130 MEMBERS, $110 MEMBER’S CONCESSION, $170 NON-MEMBERS

BOOKINGS: LENORE KULAKAUSKAS, TEL: 9365 7750 EMAIL: [email protected]

THE AIM OF THIS WORKSHOP is to

facilitate opportunities to explore the

developmental tasks and experience of

aging: the losses, limitations and gifts

for those in the third phase of their

lives. We will explore what gives us

energy, what we value now, what ties us

to past patterns which no longer serve

us, what we wish to relinquish, and what

we wish to bring into the future. What is

our dream? What steps do we need to

take towards manifesting this?

Our exploration will be through

meditation, discussion, dream work,

music, poetry, movement, play, dance

and art work. This way of working has

been devised by Marion Woodman

and her BodySoul Rhythm team to

integrate mind and body wisdom, using

our creative imagination to bridge and

integrate different ways of knowing.

BecomingA BodySoul Rhythm workshop

Crones

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SATURDAY, 8 NOVEMBER

6.30pm for 7.00pm

TALK

Blavatsky Lodge

484 Kent St,

Sydney

Stay on after this talk

for our annual

CHRISTMAS PARTY!

Details over page

Speakers: Craig San Roque & Erica Cordell

PSYCHE AND THE CITY: A SOUL’S GUIDE TO THE MODERN METROPOLIS

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EVENTS PROGRAMME

for the Singer book, accompanied by

Erica Cordell’s gritty photography and

pavement rubbings, which illustrate

many layered, wr yly symbolic, and

graphic actions, all beneath our walking

feet. Craig’s pieces include Darwin’s

Walk, The Room in the East Sydney

Hotel, Charlie Wong Detective, The Man

from Belarus, The Two Women Under

the Harbour, and Dante’s Nest. Come

– enjoy yourself and muse about your

personal inner city...

“The place where cultural experience is

located is in the potential space between

the individual and the environment...”

D.W. Winnicott

CRAIG SAN ROQUE, a Jungian analyst working in Sydney, has a distinctive

angle on Australian issues. His publications are attracting international

attention. Last year he presented the mysterious Dr Wong Stories, part of a

collaboration with renowned eco-philosopher Freya Mathews, on revisioning

Tao. This year his theme is “imaginative attention to the city – the place where

we live”.

ERICA CORDELL is a Sydney/Redfern photographer artist with a lovingly

wry eye for unnoticed pavements and forgotten historic artefacts in old

Sydney. Her family has lived here since the Second Fleet.

Craig San Roque

Inner CitySPRING JOURNAL BOOKS with

Thomas Singer of the San Francisco

Jung Institute have commissioned

Craig to write a chapter about Sydney

for a book, on great cities of the world,

with the working title of Psyche and

The City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern

Metropolis.

Tom Singer asked in his commission,

"What makes dif ferent cities unique

in terms of qualities of psyche, soul,

and spirit? What archetypal patterns

characterize a city? How does the

history, geography, and psyche of a

city’s past and current inhabitants

unite to create each city’s own special

identity – both its positive aspects and

its shadow qualities?

"These questions can be addressed

in myriad ways – through personal

anecdote as well through descriptions

and depth psychological analyses

of a city’s collective history, local

geography, and ethnic and religious

compositions... Stay close to what you

each know inside about the cities you

inhabit – with the understanding that

what is soulful and meaningful to

you may, or may not, be the same for

everyone else."

Why did Tom think Sydney was worth

a chapter? Is Sydney a great city? Or is

it maybe a city becoming great? Is it a

place with soul, or with a poetry of place?

What would you write or photograph for

such a book? How might you enhance

the imaginative vitality of the places

close to you?

Sydney is a city of villages – a setting

for crime, money, novels, paintings,

documentaries, and films – but nowhere

as beloved of culture as Paris, Vienna

or New York have become. These cities

are sets for major movements in the

imaginative life of the world. And yet

here we are.... So thank you Tom, it’s a

great idea, we will think about this.

Craig will read evocative pieces written

Sydney

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PRACTICAL EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOPCould emotional control skills improve your relationships with family, partners or work colleagues?

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We may not be able to predict our feelings for every situation but we can certainly learn to manage our emotions in almost any circumstances. The Practical Emotional Intelligence Skills workshop offers new possibilities to stay cool, calm, collected and confident in life’s most trying moments. Contact: Bo Robertson M.Lib.Sc.,Dip.Cl.Hyp.,JP, Emotional Intelligence Trainer & Coach T. 0404 565 388

VENUE: Capitan Torres Restaurant, 73 Liverpool Street, Sydney

Christmas Party

You're Invited! Come and join our end-of-year celebration and Christmas Party.

Be tempted to feast on Spanish delicacies – Paella Valenciana,

seafood platter, salad, empanadas and much more!Enjoy this special evening in a private banquet room, with a mouth- watering menu, congenial company and lively conversation.

A night not to be missed!

INVITATIONChristmas Party

You're Invited! Come and join our end-of-year celebration and Christmas Party.

Be tempted to feast on Spanish delicacies – Paella Valenciana,

seafood platter, salad, empanadas and much more!Enjoy this special evening in a private banquet room, with a mouth- watering menu, congenial company and lively conversation.

A night not to be missed!

INVITATION

EVENTS PROGRAMMESATURDAY, 8 November

8.30pm til late

Following TALK

Christmas Party!

Members $15, Non-Members $30292928

C.G.JUNG SOCIETY OF SYDNEYNew members and visitors are always welcome. If attending a lecture for the first time please feel

free to make yourself known to the Committee members, who will be happy to explain how

the Society works and to answer any questions. You are also welcome to register your email

address with us for our monthly broadcast of upcoming events.

HISTORY & AIMSThe C.G.Jung Society of Sydney was formed in 1975 to promote the ideas of the Swiss analyst

and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961). The Society is open to all members of the

general public, and offers a rich and varied programme of monthly talks and seminars from

Australian and international guest speakers. In addition the Society provides a dedicated

research and reference library.

MEMBERSHIPAnnual Membership entitles you to:

• Discounts at all our monthly Talks and Lectures

• Borrow from our Library, which includes books, journals, audio tapes, cds, dvds & videos

• Generous discounted prices at our bookshop

• Special member discounts for workshops and other activities

• 10% discount on Jungian books from Pheonix Rising Booksellers, Glebe

• You also receive a mailed copy of Jung Downunder newsletter & monthly updates via email.

APPLICATIONS Membership applications are available from our website – see under 'membership' for the local

Sydney society. You can either pay online via PayPal or print out a PDF copy of the membership

form and post to: The CG Jung Society, GPO Box 2796 Sydney NSW 2001

Full annual membership is $50.

Concession, country members or organisation membership is $25.

ENQUIRIES Membership enquiries directed to: Lenore Kulakauskas on tel. (02) 9365 7750

WEBSITE Membership application and event information – www.jungdownunder.com

OUROBOROSThe symbol of C.G.Jung Society of Sydney is an ancient Gnostic glyph which the Alchemists later used to depict the nature of their transforming work. The script in the centre of the image means self-digester or self-digesting one. The self-digesting Ouroboros slays itself and brings itself back to life. It illustrates the principle of human creativity and the development of personality as it devours itself and generates itself.

C.G.Jung Societyof SydneyTM

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2008 President: Sally GillespieTreasurer: Monica RomanAssistant Treasurer: Marcel AbarcaMinutes Secretary & Librarian: Lucy DaveyAss’t Librarian: Yolanda WaldmanLiaison Officer: June Reynolds

Advertising Officer: Bo RoberstonMember: Lesley HamlynBookshop Officer: Jon MarshallWebsite Officer: Tori CollinsHonorarium: Lenore KulakauskasCommunications Officer & Graphic Design: Tim Hartridge

DISCLAIMER

The C.G.Jung Society of Sydney receives

advertising in good faith. We do not

take responsibility for services offered by

individual advertisers on the Noticeboard.

Caution and discrimination in responding

is advised and is your responsibility.

COPYRIGHT © 2008

Transmission or reproduction of protected

items beyond that allowed by fair use as

defined in the copyright laws requires

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owners.

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Thank You The Jung Society of Sydney wishes to express its gratitude to

Toxteth Hotel in Glebe which donates the use of its function room for our Committee meetings,

and McMillan Print for their expertise and generosity.

NOTICEBOARDSANDPLAY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Sarah Gibson, Jungian Analyst, & Sally Gillespie, Jungian Psychotherapist,

offer small professional development groups and supervision in Balmain

for sandplay therapy practitioners from beginner to advanced levels, in

the tradition of Dora Kalff and C.G. Jung.

For fu r ther in format ion phone Sarah (02) 9810 1898

or Sally (02) 9552 3252.

THE HEALING POWER OF STORIESEmotional Intelligence Writing Group

Talking about painful events from the past can be healing. Writing a

book about how an emotional wound occurred cleanses the wound,

supporting closure and healing. It also helps you to understand the

circumstances of past events and develop the emotional skills needed

for coping and change. Books about suffering and the ways in which

disastrous events result in survival or destruction are highly popular.

Every person has at least one story in them. Have you written your

story yet? For help join a monthly WRITING GROUP.

Contact Bo Robertson M.Lib.Sc.,Dip.Cl.Hyp.,JP,

Emotional Intelligence Trainer & Coach on 0404 565 388

ADVERTISING SPACE IS AVAILABLEThe ‘Jung Downunder Newsletter’ is published twice a year and mailed

free to all members of the C.G. Jung Society of Sydney. We also distribute

the publication free of charge through therapeutic clinics, other

psychology organisations and to the general public, via local bookshops

and cafes. Our readership is broad and communicates directly to the

person on the street interested in the benefits of psychology.

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NEW! Tuesday Evening Reading Group

STARTS TUESDAY, August 5 — October 28

The Work of Marion Woodman Kathleen McPhillips

Explore over 6 sessions some of the central themes

in the extensive work of Canadian Jungian analyst

Marion Woodman. Page 16–17

SATURDAY, JULY 12:

Climate Change Meets Depth Psychology: Weaving Threads between Self and World

Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini

and Sally Gillespie Page 14–15

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9

The Cure is Effected Through Love: A Relational Approach to Individuation

Judith Pickering Page 18–19


Myths to Live By:Pygmalion as a Modern Concept

of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Bo Robertson Page 20–21


The Crone: The Archetype Of The Wise Older Woman

Joan Harcourt Page 22–23

SATURDAY, JULY 12:

Climate Change Meets Depth Psychology: Weaving Threads between Self and World

Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini

and Sally Gillespie Page 14–15

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9

The Cure is Effected Through Love: A Relational Approach to Individuation

Judith Pickering Page 18–19


Myths to Live By:Pygmalion as a Modern Concept

of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Bo Robertson Page 20–21


The Crone: The Archetype Of The Wise Older Woman


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12

WORKSHOP

Becoming Crones: A BodySoul Rhythm workshop



The Inner City of Sydney Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern

Metropolis

Craig San Roque & Erica Cordell Page 26–27

Saturday, November 8

Annual Christmas Party: Coming all together Page 28

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12

WORKSHOP

Becoming Crones: A BodySoul Rhythm workshop



The Inner City of Sydney Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern

Metropolis

Craig San Roque & Erica Cordell Page 26–27

Saturday, November 8

Annual Christmas Party: Coming all together Page 28

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